Miami Dolphins: Channing Crowder Takes On Popular Web Site

September 19, 2009|Posted by Mike Berardino on September 19, 2009 05:22 PM

Channing Crowder was wearing that little half-smile he often sports, so it wasn't like he was livid or anything.

But you could tell the Miami Dolphins LB wasn't pleased with something that was written about him, and frankly I can't blame him.

"Hey, you know this guy from Pro Football Talk.com?" he asked a group of writers in the Dolphins locker room this afternoon.

"You mean Mike Florio?" I said.

Yes, that was who he meant.

"Well, you tell Mike Florio to come to my house and call me a 'douche bag' to my face," Crowder said. "Just tell him to come to [my housing development] and take two lefts and a right and look for the house with the Dodge Ram out front. I'll be waiting there for him and he can call me that to my face and we can talk about it."

Turns out someone had shown Crowder the latest link from PFT.com regarding his anti-Lane Kiffin diatribe on the eve of the Tennessee-Florida game. Florio, the hard-working czar of the ever-popular Web site, had encouraged readers to "Google 'Channing' and 'Crowder' and 'douche' and 'bag,' " for more info.

At first I assumed someone had misquoted Crowder calling Kiffin by this unkind name, but Crowder swore he said nothing of the sort.

"I don't even use that term," Crowder said.

Those who heard his entire Kiffin rip job on Friday said there were no homonyms for douche bag used by the hard-hitting LB either. No "moose hag" or "poop rag" or anything like it.

So now it looks like Florio takes his place beside Rex Ryan and Lane Kiffin on Crowder's ever-growing hit list.

Here's a piece of free advice for all three of them: Stay away from the house with the Dodge Ram parked out front.

UPDATE: Mike Florio has responded to my email request for comment. "That's funny," he writes. "I was just playing around."